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Strike Targets Support Base, Marines Respond to Ramadi Attacks

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2006  Coalition forces destroyed an abandoned hotel yesterday in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, using precision munitions to deny its use as an insurgent support base, military officials in Baghdad reported today.

Officials said the hotel was a known location of insurgent activity, and that coalition forces have targeted it multiple times since May 7 in response to repeated insurgent activity.